Designated Villain / Fan Works

• My Immortal:
  • Anyone who opposed Ebony.
  • Dumbledore is apparently a very mean and cruel teacher who tortures Ebony for being gothic. He was rightfully angered to see her having sex in the middle of the forest. He laughed at Draco being kidnapped by Voldemort, but you have to admit, it was pretty hilarious.
  • Britney is this and a Butt-Monkey. Preps in general are treated as monsters, despite not even doing anything mean.
• Naruto
  • Fan fics in general seem to make ALL of the Uchiha Clan evil and jerkasses, simply because the readers dislike Sasuke — who, it should be remembered, had a seriously traumatic childhood and no less than three antagonists actively trying to corrupt him in various horrible ways since the age of 8, if not earlier, including assault, Mind Rape, and torture; so it's understandable if he's more than a little messed up, even if he is a villain. So they think Itachi was right to kill every single baby, non-ninja, or elderly member of the entire clan. Simply because one member is a bit of a Jerkass, his entire genetic family tree must be like this and deserves to be wiped out to make space for the recently powered-up Naruto.
  • On the flipside we have Sinister Chakra where this is invoked so the reader is unsure of just who is evil. Akatsuki? Wanna change the world for the better with a newer system that currently works and is in place in Ame but lament they have to take over the world to do so. The biggest one being Madara: Sealed in Naruto with the Kyuubi but is okay with being absorbed but wants Naruto to go after Konoha for allowing a corrupt council to exist and nearly wipe out all of the clan Senju but 4 people. He generally helps Naruto but warns him not to be naive.
• How I Became Yours.: Poor, poor Mai. True, she does one legitimately villainous thing, killing Katara's baby through poisoned fruit, but she is right when she hides Katara's letters and eventually confronts Zuko about them, and is truly sad when Zuko tells her that he never loved her. Then Katara kills her. With bloodbending. In the middle of the day.
• The Red Dragon Satan (Re-Loaded): In this High School D×D fanfic, Rias Gremory is immediately portrayed as the bad guy for not loving Issei even after she politely said no. Which Issei then commits suicide over, all because Rias didn't return his love? And yet Rias is blamed for him committing suicide and is treated like a heartless bitch for not loving Issei back in this fanfic.
• The Chatoverse depicts humans as evil in the extreme unless they convert, in which case they're simply 'misguided' beings who are being 'uplifted' into a supposedly better state of living. Any character who refuses to convert, and calls the ponies out on the genocide they are conducting is written as unsympathetic and beyond any kind of redemption on their own and must be forced to convert against their will. The catch is that humanity doesn't seem to have done anything villainous.
  • The newfoals that make up the eponymous organization in The Reasonably Adamant Down With Celestia Newfoal Society are portrayed as in the wrong for not being entirely on board with their transformations (some of them were converted by the PER unwillingly).
• Most of the The Prayer Warriors villains are simply people who aren't Christian. Interestingly enough, Percy Jackson, initially the main antagonist of The Evil Gods Part 1, despite having supposedly done enough wrong to make him contemplate suicide, doesn't do anything actually evil until after he converts, at which point he stones his half-brother Tyson to death for refusing to become a Christian.
• Seeing it from her perspective, Yukari was seen as this to a mild extent during the events of ''Mine because she refused to give back Reimu once her duties as wet-nurse were exhausted, which were to be expected as she took care of her since birth, thus she's grown to be attached, seeing herself as a mother figure to "her little human child light, especially if you take into account that she is unable to bear children of their own and hasn't caused anyone any harm to warrant anyone's hostility, aside from refusing to give Reimu back to her mother initially once her deeds were exhausted.
  • However, Amoridere swings between both Reimu's mother and Yukari as being designated villains, if either side is taken, as both are at fault.
• Cyclops in a large proportion of X-Men fanfictions, in these he is the villain for being the "Stop Having Fun" Guy, which to be fair is sometimes necessary as a leader if you don't want your team to die horribly, a lot of the time even if he's had an I Want My Beloved to Be Happy decision regarding Jean he'll be called out for attempting to move on, trying to stop new untrained students fighting in missions, which again could get them and all his friends killed, oh and the best of the lot, existing, often he will be maligned by characters even when his dialogue isn't filled with jerkassery unless greetings are suddenly insults in these fics. The only way to reliably avoid these is to solely read fanfictions where he is part of a major pairing, which means tough luck if you're a fan of him and want to read about him being badass because he suffers from severe Adaptational Wimp in these.
• The celebrities in the Real-Person Fic, The Global Gunger, who get punished by the titular Designated Hero, Tony Stevens, because he's stuck in a dead-end job, while they get to go off on holiday. Also because they're cocky. (Even though the narration never shows them acting even close to arrogant.) Therefore, we're supposed to laugh at them, and cheer on Tony Stevens, as he dishes out their 'Just Desserts' upon them, turns them into laughingstocks, and stranding one of them on a boat, completely messy, and alone. Instead, you just end up feeling sorry for them, and want them to get their revenge on him.
• Sonic X: Dark Chaos ends up deconstructing this trope. Sonic and friends immediately turn on Maledict and consider him to be The Man Behind the Man the moment he comes to Tsali's aid in Episode 63. It turns out they're right...but Maledict only manipulated everything to end the Eternal War and was (kinda) on Sonic's side the whole time.
• In Of Blood and Steel, Jackie Lambert isn't evil, per se, but she is Erwin's rival for the position of tankery team commander and is said to be somewhat stuck up and vain, resulting in some people being dismayed at the prospect of her leading the team. She doesn't quite live up to this reputation, though, and she has several valid points about Erwin's shortcomings as a leader. Jackie decides to give Erwin a chance as leader unless she causes the team to lose, and after Erwin loses to Salem High, Erwin begrudgingly honors the agreement. It's unclear how much Jackie deserves her reputation, or whether we're meant to think she does.
• Adam Taurus and the White Fang as a whole in Of Vale Blood are much less villainous than in the original, mostly due to their goals being entirely understandable. Their main purpose is to abolish slavery in the Kingdom and they target almost exclusively the ones responsible, yet they are treated as monsters for causing "bloodshed". The intended heroes of the story never bother to end slavery - though they make vague plans for it at the end - and at no point attempt negotiating with the White Fang, leaving violence as their enemies' only option.
• In The First King by Savu0211, Nkosi gets upset at a trio of hyenas for hunting an elephant. He thinks that they're torturing her and says that they should hunt animals that they can kill quickly. However, weakening their prey is how hyenas hunt. They're just doing what comes naturally to them. The elephant also died of natural causes a few minutes afterwards.
• Total Drama Crios Cath has a contestant whose title literally is this trope. Molly Reid has the reputation of a violent bully, but it is noted in her introduction that she has never been a bully.
• The Fantasia Times series has the "Royals" subgroup of characters. They're essentially the butt-monkeys of the rest of the cast, being treated like garbage simply for being a part of said subgroup, threatened with physical harm at the slightest hint that they're being mean to someone, and having to deal with an invoked Star-Crossed Lovers scenario with their designated love interests (who also treat them like garbage, yet are supposed to be their destined mates). And yet we're supposed to root against them/for their "redemption" whenever they oppose the protagonist. Heck, even Ayato Sakamaki (the only "Royal" who's canonically a pure jackass; all the others are jerks with hearts of gold or straight-up nice) comes off as the Only Sane Man instead of the jerk the writer says he is.
• The Renegade protagonist of With This Ring calls out Guy Gardner for treating him this way.
  Gardner: Gray, you're a part'a the Light now. You should be grateful he just punched you.
  Grayven: Oh? I thought the League had principles. Ideals you held to above what an ordinary man on the street might reasonably be expected to do. King Orin punched me because he allowed his passions to override his reason, not because I was doing something for the Light. Heck, it's not like I'm hiding. If you want to make an accusation, do it. I turned up in court when my life was on the line. I'd gladly do it for a lesser charge.
  Gardner: Yeah, that's what Luthor says too.
  Grayven: And he would. You see, Guy, being the 'good guy' is rather dependent on you doing certain things and not doing certain others.
• My Inner Life: The dragons. After being driven from their homeland by the Griffons, they were brainwashed into serving the Dracoknights. All in all, they come off as being tragic victims of circumstance that were forced into villainy, yet are still killed without remorse or sympathy.
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: 25 Years Later: Arguably Manny, of all people. While Manny was a spoiled little brat as a child, as an adult what he does is not at all deserving of his Black Sheep status in the family. Moving far away from your hometown and family, while understandably a hard pill to swallow, is not at all an atypical thing for someone in their twenties to do. To be fair, it is implied that Manny pretty much cut himself off completely from the rest of the family, but given Frank's Cerebus Retcon as an Abusive Parent, it's not entirely unjustified. In fact, seeing as one of the last things Frank tells Manny is "Get the FUCK out of here right now" right before he gets punched by Rodrick on top of everything else, him setting Frank's grave on fire comes off much more as cathartic retribution rather than a Moral Event Horizon.
• Fortune_Lover_(TGS Beta)(SARU_rip)[T+Eng0.75_Sincere].zip: The story's basic premise is the existence of the titular Fortune Lover mod (implied to be created by A-chan), in which the Katarina Claes of Fortune Lover is replaced by the Katarina Claes of My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! while all the event flags and everyone else's dialog is left unaltered. The end result is that all the characters treat Katarina as a villain and bully despite her doing literally nothing even remotely villainous, to the point where she is eventually murdered or exiled for absolutely no reason.

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